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BULLETIN 


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Hamline  University 


Jin  Uemoriam 

2jmt.  Hatttjeut  ^eotge  Norton 

®r.  George  Ptlber  kartell 


ST.  PAUL 

PUBLISHED  BY  THE  UNIVERSITY  FOUR  TIMES  A  YEAR 
JANUARY,  MARCH.  MAY  AND  NOVEMBER 


Entered  as  second- clast  matter,  January  17,  191 1 ,  at  the  Post  Office  at  Saint  Paul,  Minnesota, 
under  thtjla  of  Congress  of  July  16,  1894 


HON.  MATTHEW  G.  NORTON.  1831-1917 


Matthew  George  Norton  was  a  model  man,  citizen, 
philanthropist  and  Christian.  Physically,  mentally,  mor- 
ally and  spiritually  he  was  above  the  average  stature  of 
men.  His  commanding  presence  and  commanding  char- 
acter won  for  him  the  esteem  and  confidence  of  all  who 
knew  him.  His  success  in  business  was  the  natural  result 
of  his  intelligence,  industry,  energy  and  integrity. 

Born  in  Lewisburg,  Pa.,  in  1831,  he  was  educated  in 
the  public  schools  of  his  native  town  and  in  an  academy 
which  later  developed  into  a  University.  He  had  a  good 
start  in  life  in  a  home  where  the  fundamental  virtues  were 
taught  and  exemplified. 

He  came  to  Minnesota  in  1856,  settled  in  Winona  and 
with  his  brother  James  and  cousin  William  H.  Laird 
formed  a  corporation  of  which  he  was  president.  They 
built  saw  mills,  bought  pine  lands  and  manufactured  lum- 
ber and  the  business  grew  to  be  one  of  the  largest  of  its 
kind  in  the  country.  With  the  prosperity  of  the  West  it 
prospered  and  made  them  all  rich. 

In  1866  he  was  married  to  Miss  Emma  B.  Hayes  who 
was  in  every  way  his  fit  companion  and  their  home  was  an 
ideal  one  where  Christian  hospitality  was  seen  at  its  best 
as  will  be  testified  by  all  who  were  privileged  to  enjoy  it. 

Mr.  Norton  had  a  taste  for  good  literature  not  common 
in  men  of  such  large  business  interests.  He  had  one  of  the 
largest  and  best  private  libraries  in  Minnesota  and  found 
time  somehow  to  familiarize  himself  with  its  contents.  The 
classics  of  all  ages,  the  masters  of  thought  and  expression, 
the  great  teachers  who  have  made  the  world  wise  were  the 
friends  with  whom  he  took  counsel  and  became  himself 
wise. 

With  all  his  other  good  traits  the  supreme  element  of 
Mr.  Norton's  character  was  his  religion.  Lord  Morley  says 
of  William  E.  Gladstone:  "Mr.  Gladstone  was  a  great 
scholar,  a  great  writer,  a  great  orator,  a  great  statesman, 
but  the  greatest  thing  in  him  was  his  religion — he  was  a 
great  Christian."    Mr.  Norton  united  with  the  Methodist 

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Episcopal  Church  in  early  life,  and  was  a  faithful  and 
generous  supporter  of  it  all  his  life.  He  gave  to  the  cause 
of  religious  education,  especially  to  Hamline  University, 
more  than  any  other  man  in  Minnesota;  and  to  schools, 
churches  and  good  causes  of  all  kinds  his  benefactions  were 
large  and  numerous. 

The  Winona  Hospital,  the  city  parks  and  the  Young 
Men's  Christian  Association  are  largely  indebted  to  him  for 
their  existence  and  prosperity. 

One  of  Mr.  Norton's  characteristics,  worthy  of  especial 
emphasis,  was  his  charitable  judgments  of  other  people.  In 
the  fifty-one  years  of  my  intimate  acquaintance  with  him, 
conversing  as  we  did  freely  about  all  sorts  of  persons  and 
things,  I  never  heard  from  him  an  unkind  word  about  any 
human  being. 

"Blessed  are  the  merciful,  for  they  shall  obtain  mercy." 
When  I  think  of  him,  the  prayer  breathes  itself : 

"Teach  me  to  feel  another's  woe, 
To  hide  the  fault  I  see, 
The  mercy  I  to  others  show, 
That  mercy  show  to  me." 

In  the  partiality  of  friendship  and  the  glamor  with 
which  love  invests  the  memories  of  those  we  love,  we  are 
sometimes  tempted  to  exaggerate  their  virtues  and  minimize 
their  defects.  But  no  such  criticism  detracts  from  this 
imperfect  tribute  to  Matthew  George  Norton.  My  only  fear 
is  that  justice  has  not  been  done  to  one  in  whom  justice  was 
always  tempered  with  mercy. 

"His  life  was  noble, 
And  the  elements  so  mixed  in  him, 
That  nature  might  stand  up, 
And  say  to  all  the  world — 
This  was  a  Man." 

William  McKinley. 

Winona 

***** 

Hamline's  greatest  benefactor  is  gone,  yet  the  name  of 
Norton  has  been  so  vitally  inlaid  in  the  annals  of  our 
history,  that  it  must  endure  as  long  as  the  life  and  memory 
of  the  institution.     Other  names  have  meant  much  to  us, 

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Harrison,  Goheen,  Hill;  but  this  man  not  only  poured  out 
more  largely  of  his  wealth  thru  a  generation  but  also  was 
able  to  give  more  largely  of  his  service  as  a  Trustee  for  30 
years — much  of  the  time  as  President  of  the  Board — while 
out  of  his  family  came  two  of  the  noblest  boys  ever  con- 
tributed to  the  student  body  of  any  college. 

As  Pastor  of  the  family  for  8  years  at  Winona  and  as 
schoolmate  and  friend  of  the  younger  Xortons  in  the  early 
Hamline  days  perhaps  I  can  speak  almost  as  closely  as  any 
other  man  concerning  the  deceased.  His  life  was  gentle  in 
that  exquisite  form  which  becometh  the  strong  and  his 
modesty  was  such  as  became  the  truly  great.  This  was  no 
ordinary  man  but  one  of  the  great  Christian  business  men 
of  the  nation.  He  had  an  indomitable  will  and  proved  as 
terrible  a  foe  to  those  he  considered  wrong  as  he  was  a 
staunch  friend  to  those  whom  he  believed  to  be  right. 

Mr.  Norton  was  a  lover  of  good  literature  and  had  a 
magnificent  library.  Here  among  his  family  and  among  his 
books  he  was  at  his  best  and  one  needed  to  be  well 
acquainted  with  the  great  biographies  in  which  he  delighted 
in  order  to  maintain  intelligently  a  part  in  the  discussion. 

He  estimated  lives  and  his  judgments  gave  something 
of  the  biographic  clue  to  his  own  life.  Like  Gladstone,  his 
life  was  full  of  purpose  and  instead  of  wasting  his  time 
from  youth,  he  improved  it;  instead  of  thinking  he  must 
"see  life"  at  its  worst  he  tried  to  see  it  at  its  best.  He  loved 
beauty,  goodness  and  integrity  and  deliberately  chose  to 
frame  his  own  life  after  the  highest  pattern  given  to  man. 
Thus  he  chose  to  relate  himself  closely  with  the  church  and 
to  be  an  active  participant  in  its  privileges  and  its  responsi- 
bilities thinking  he  could  best  grow  and  best  serve  thru  its 
organized  channels. 

Thru  the  church  he  became  interested  in  the  church 
college  and  Hamline  secured  one  of  the  most  ardent  friends 
and  one  of  the  most  generous  supporters  that  could  come 
to  any  college  or  institution. 

The  greatest  gift  from  Mr.  Norton  to  Hamline  should 
be  found  in  his  own  life.  In  our  hall  of  fame  his  name 
and  his  picture  will  be  preserved  but  if  our  college  youth 
of  succeeding  generations  could  study  and  absorb  the  secret 

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of  his  success  and  the  spirit  which  animated  him,  we  should 
possess  a  heritage  which  would  prove  of  royal  and  eternal 
worth. 

S.  F.  Kerfoot. 
Hamline  University 

Matthew  George  Xorton  was  the  greatest  layman  that 
Minnesota  Methodism  has  produced.  I  do  not  refer  to  his 
great  wealth,  and  business  ability,  but  to  the  man.  There 
was  more  oughtness  in  his  nature  mingled  with  kindness 
than  in  anyone  I  have  ever  known.  He  was  intellectually 
the  superior  of  any  of  his  business  associates.  He  was 
morally  clean  and  upright  in  his  business  transactions.  He 
was  a  devout  Christian,  an  intelligent  and  thoughtful  Bible 
student.  Indeed  his  mind  was  saturated  with  the  English 
Bible,  its  characters  and  principles  were  ever  in  his  mind. 
He  was  spiritual  without  cant.  He  despised  sham  and 
pretense.  But  it  was  as  a  father  in  his  home  where  he 
measured  the  loftiest.  He  had  two  sons  and  two  daughters. 
The  boys  grew  to  young  manhood.  The  oldest  had  just 
graduated  from  college  and  had  been  admitted  to  the  busi- 
ness firm  when  he  was  suddenly  taken  ill  and  soon  died. 
The  younger  brother  broken  hearted  over  the  death  of  his 
brother,  began  to  fail  and  in  a  few  months  he  also  passed 
away.  Those  who  knew  him  said  he  died  of  a  broken  heart, 
grieving  for  his  brother.  The  home  life  had  always  been 
so  beautiful  and  tender  that  the  delicate  nature  could  not 
bear  the  snapping  of  the  bonds  that  had  bound  them 
together.  About  this  time  one  of  the  daughters  became 
seriously  ill  from  which  she  has  never  fully  recovered.  It 
was  his  sublime  consecration  and  devotion  to  this  daughter 
that  showed  the  greatness  and  tenderness  of  his  fatherly 
heart.  He  told  me  fifteen  years  afterwards  that  he  had  been 
absent  from  her  two  nights  only  in  all  these  years.  There 
was  a  solicitude,  a  watchfulness,  a  tender  sympathy,  a 
heartache  for  her  that  exceeded  anything  I  have  ever 
known  before.  He  hoped  to  live  as  long  as  she,  that  he 
might  care  for  her  to  the  last,  but  she  has  survived  him. 
Since  knowing  his  experience,  there  is  a  passage  of  Scripture 
that  has  a  new  meaning  to  me,  "Like  as  a  father  pitieth 
his  children,  so  the  Lord  pitieth  them  that  fear  him."  And 
I  have  said  if  our  Heavenly  Father  is  more  thoughtful  and 

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tender  of  us  than  was  Matthew  Norton  of  his  children, 
then  we  have  a  gracious  Heavenly  Father  indeed.  I  think 
I  know  God  better,  since  I  have  known  Matthew  G.  Norton. 

Frank  Doran. 
St.  Paul 

*         *         *         *         * 

Mr.  M.  G.  Norton  was  a  remarkable  man  in  so  many 
ways  that  it  is  not  easy  to  decide  what  to  emphasize  in  a 
brief  characterization.  Modesty,  self  effacement,  unselfish- 
ness, sincerity,  courtesy,  kindliness  and  thoughtfulness  for 
others  were  some  of  his  striking  characteristics. 

Nature  formed  him  after  a  large  pattern,  she  gave 
him  a  large  body,  a  large  head  and  a  large  heart.  And 
so  it  was  perfectly  natural  that  his  plans  for  business  and 
for  service  to  his  fellow  men  should  be  made  on  a  large 
scale.  He  had  unusual  views  in  the  matter  of  Christian 
stewardship.  He  regarded  his  great  wealth  as  not  his 
absolutely  but  his  in  trust,  his  to  use  in  the  service  of 
others.  And  so  when  a  great  panic  occurred  some  years 
ago  and  business  was  at  a  standstill  and  men  were  thrown 
out  of  employment  not  one  of  his  employees  was  dismissed 
but  they  and  their  families  were  generously  provided  for. 

His  generous  gifts  to  Christian  education  were  made 
because  he  had  an  intelligent  conviction  as  to  the  mission 
of  a  Christian  College.  And  yet  his  many  gifts  were  not 
his  largest  contribution  to  the  college  he  so  dearly  loved. 
For  more  than  thirty  years  he  was  the  wise  counsellor 
of  the  other  officers  of  Hamline  University  and  the  service 
he  thus  rendered  cannot  be  over-estimated.  Hamline  Uni- 
versity does  well  to  honor  his  memory. 

He  had  a  remarkable  capacity  for  friendship.  His 
sympathetic  nature,  the  fact  that  he  was  a  good  listener, 
and  his  many  admirable  qualities  of  head  and  heart  won 
him  hosts  of  friends,  and  he  knew  how  to  keep  his  friends. 

He  was  a  great  reader.  It  is  quite  unusual  to  find  a 
man  so  burdened  with  the  cares  of  a  great  business,  so 
fond  of  books.  He  had  a  large,  well  selected  library  and 
he  was  familiar  with  its  contents, — Euskin,  Carlyle,  and 
Emerson  were  among  his  favorite  authors  and  his  famil- 
iarity with  these  and  many  other  good  authors  was  a  con- 
stant surprise  and  a  constant  source  of  pleasure  to  his 
friends.  G.  H.  Bridgman. 

MlNNNEAPOLIS 

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MATTHEW  GEORGE  NORTON 


GEORGE  WILBER  HARTWELL 

BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCH 
September  14,  1881— July  27,  1917. 

George  Wilber  Eartwell  was  born  ai   Hamburg,  New 

Jersey,  on  September  14,  1881.  His  ancestry  shows  rather 
more  than  the  usual  American  interest  of  admixture  of 
nationality;  the  Hart  wells  coming  of  pure  English  stock, 
and  the  Zabriskies  (Sobieski)  of  a  noble  family  of  Poland. 
Both  branches,  however,  have  been  American  nearly  three 
hundred  years,  dating  from  within  a  twelve-month  of  each 
other,  1636-7.  Before  he  was  five  his  father  died,  leaving 
his  mother  with  himself  and  a  younger  sister  to  care  for. 
The  little  boy  thus  early  formed  the  habits  of  industry  and 
thoughtful  consideration  that  marked  his  life. 

Aside  from  his  mother's  encouragement  and  his  native 
demands,  circumstances  were  not  especially  favorable  to  his 
educational  start.  For  instance  he  walked  four  miles  night 
and  morning  between  his  home  and  the  Hackensack  high 
school.  In  spite  of  this  he  graduated  in  his  eighteenth 
year  valedictorian  of  his  class.  In  Wesleyan  University. 
Middletown,  Conn.,  his  academic  career  was  brilliant  and 
impressive.  He  won  every  mathematical  prize  open  to  him 
in  competition,  took  Preliminary  Honors  in  Mathematics, 
General  Honors,  and  Phi  Beta  Kappa  at  graduation  in 
1903.  He  earned  his  expenses  by  night  work  in  connection 
with  calorimeter  experiments,  an  experience  to  which  he 
sometimes  attributed  his  strikingly  beautiful,  though 
untimely,  gray  hair.  He  became  at  Wesleyan  a  charter 
member  of  the  Commons  Club,  a  democratic  body  formed 
as  a  balance  to  the  elaborate  fraternity  system  and  program 
then  in  vogue ;  and  he  always  remained  a  true  democrat. 

After  graduation  he  taught  for  two  years  in  the  Michi- 
gan Agricultural  College,  Lansing,  and  then  went  to 
Columbia  University  on  a  fellowship,  where  in  1908  he 
gained  his  doctorate  by  presenting  a  masterly  thesis  entitled 
Plane  Fields  of  Force  ]Y1iose  Trajectories  Are  Invariant 
Under  a  Projective  Group.  The  next  year  he  occupied  a 
year's  vacancy  in  the  department  of  Mathematics  of  the 
University  of  Kansas,  where  he  was  made  an  honorary 
member  cf  Sigma  Psi.     In  the  fall  of  1909  he  came  to 

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GEORGE    WILBER    HARTWELL 


Hamline  University  as  Professor  of  Mathematics,  and  Later 
in  the  year  became  Registrar.  In  .June  1911,  he  was  mar- 
ried to  Martha  Winston,  II.  {].,  '04,  who  with  their  Little 
daughter,  Laicella  Ruth,  age  two,  and  an  unborn  child, 
survive  him  in  the  beautiful  home  which  they  together 
planned  and  labored  for  and  had  occupied  a  scant  half-year. 

On  .July  10.  1917,  accompanied  by  his  family,  he  went 
to  visit  friends  in  Montana.  Shortly  after  his  arrival  he 
was  stricken  by  an  acute  attack  of  appendicitis,  and  on  the 
27th  of  July,  following  an  operation  in  the  hospital  of 
Columbus,  Mont.,  he  ended  a  life  of  unusual  health  and 
vitality. 

Though  Dr.  Hartwell  was  a  member  of  many  societies 
and  a  scholar  of  rani  in  his  field,  his  chief  monument  is  the 
record  of  his  class-room,  where  his  patience  and  skill  were 
unbounded,  in  the  office,  where  no  pains  for  a  purpose 
were  too  great  and  his  efficiency  well-nigh  perfect,  in  his 
heme  which  was  one  of  singular  felicity,  ami  in  the  hearts 
of  many  friends  whom  he  had  a  genius  for  making  and 
keeping.  In  his  human  relations  he  was  at  his  best.  He 
had  joined  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  in  his  boyhood 
and  he  maintained  a  quiet,  unshaken  faith  in  the  essentials 
of  religion;  all  the  trappings  were  to  him  anathema. 

He  was  one  of  Wordswortlfs  Happy  Warriors: 
"  the  generous  spirit  who.  when  brought 

Among  the  tasks  of  real  life  hath  wrought 
Upon  the  plan  that  pleased  his  boyish  thought." 

His  friends  in  whose  hearts  he  created  his  immortality, 
cherish  his  keenness  of  vision  and  sanity  of  judgment,  his 
purity  of  mind,  his  hatred  of  shams,  his  idolatry  of  the 
best.  He  has  left  a  large  and  lonesome  place  in  Hamline 
University. 

Thomas  Percival  Beyer. 


The  rare  student  is  the  teacher's  treasure.  George  W. 
Hartwell  was  one  of  the  few,  the  very  few  rare  students 
whom  it  has  been  my  pleasure  to  teach.  His  college  career 
at  Wesleyan  University  and  his  work  for  his  doctor's  degree 
at  Columbia  alike  showed  exceptional  mathematical  talent. 
Penetrating  in  perception,  clear   in  statement,  strong  in 


mathematical  imagination,  he  possessed  powers  which,  I 
believe,  would  have  made  him  prominent  among  the 
mathematical  investigators  of  the  country,  had  this  been 
his  aim.  But  ambition  offered  him  no  temptations.  His 
heart's  desire  was  to  teach,  and  of  this  I  have  heard  naught 
but  praise.  Few  men  of  such  power  are  so  unaffectedly 
modest.  I  have  hardly  known  which  to  admire  most,  the 
work  or  the  man  behind  it.  Imperturbable,  cool,  clean  and 
strong  of  purpose,  he  saw  life's  duties  with  clear  eye  and 
left  with  those  who  knew  him  the  recollection  and  the 
influence  of  absolute  reliability. 

Edward  B.  Van  Vleck. 
Madison,  Wis. 

I  first  met  Dr.  George  W.  Hartwell  in  1898.  I  knew 
him  as  a  student  in  High  School,  I  received  him  into  the 
Church  and  was  his  pastor  for  a  number  of  years.  I  have 
followed  his  brilliant  career  as  a  student  and  his  equally 
effective  career  as  a  teacher  with  eager,  friendly  pride.  His 
fundamental  brain  power  and  capacity  for  work,  his  quiet 
strength  and  steadiness,  his  unpretending  manliness,  must 
have  impressed  many  others  as  they  have  impressed  me. 
His  superb  mathematical  abilities  commanded  my  admira- 
tion.    His  strength  of  character  impressed  me  most  of  all. 

Lynn  Harold  Hough. 
Garrett  Biblical  Institute. 

Dr.  Hartwell  was  always  on  the  firing  line,  always 
unafraid,  always  confident,  unruffled,  cheerful.  My  duty 
led  to  my  knowing  him  as  Eegistrar  most  intimately.  He 
was  brought  in  contact  with  every  student  in  college  to 
counsel,  to  advise,  to  inform  and  sometimes  to  admonish. 
Always  the  student  left  him  with  the  conviction  that  he 
had  been  dealt  with  by  a  perfectly  just  man,  or  if  it  had 
been  a  question  of  fact  by  a  man  with  a  phenomenally 
accurate  grasp  on  all  the  details  of  the  office. 

He  was  of  that  little  group  of  great  mathematicians 
which  this  generation  and  country  have  produced;  such  a 
group  is  always  small  in  any  country  or  time,  to  be  counted 
on  one's  fingers.  Usually  such  a  one  is  not  found  to  be 
naturally  a  great  teacher  of  elementary  mathematics.  What 
to  the  ordinary  mind  is  full  of  difficulties  is  to  him  like 

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breathing.  Dr.  Hartwell  was  a  notable  exception.  With  a 
clarity  of  statement  and  of  restatement,  able  to  feel  his 
way  into  the  very  mind  of  the  students  and  with  a  patience 
almost  divine  he  was  indeed  an  unique  teacher. 

With  clear  and  keen  vision  he  saw  the  great  issues 
involved  in  our  war  and  was  an  intense  patriot  and  a  sup- 
porter of  the  government. 

We  all  loved  him,  those  who  knew  him  best  loved  him 
most.  L.  H.  Batchelder. 

Hamline  University. 

***** 

George  W.  Hartwell  was  a  brilliant  mathematician, 
an  exceptionally  efficient  teacher,  always  ready  to  do  more 
than  his  share  of  work,  a  despiser  of  shams  and  absolutely 
square  in  his  dealings  with  all.  Common  sense  was  second 
nature  to  him.  He  possessed  an  almost  uncanny  accuracy 
in  his  ability  to  size  up  an  individual  correctly  in  a  remark- 
ably short  time. 

Professor  Hartwell  did  not  play  to  the  grandstand,  he 
endeared  himself  to  no  one  by  preaching  meaningless  and 
superficial  generalities.  He  endeared  himself  to  all  because 
of  the  life  he  lived.  The  individual  who  called  him  friend, 
the  various  groups,  whether  college  or  church,  which 
claimed  him  as  one  of  their  number,  his  loved  ones  of  the 
family  circle,  all  have  a  right  to  boast  because  George  W. 
Hartwell  was  one  of  them.  These  groups  feel  keenly  enough 
the  loss  they  have  sustained.  The  citizenship  of  the  world 
thinks  it  doesn't  feel  it.  But  society  is  injured  though  it 
may  not  know  it.  The  world  does  not  need  more  preach- 
ers, missionaries,  reformers,  professors,  etc.,  half  so  much 
as  it  needs  recognition  of  men  of  the  Hartwell  type. 

Roy  Towne. 
Washburn  College,  Topeka,  Kansas. 

FACULTY  APPOINTMENTS 

Charles  Horswell,  Professor  of  Biblical  Literature,  1421 
W.  Minnehaha  street. 

Professor  Horswell  has  the  degrees  A.  B.  and  A.  M. 
from  Northwestern  University,  B.  D.  from  Garrett  Biblical 
Institute,  Ph.  D.  from  Yale  University,  and  D.  D.  from 
Northwestern  University.    He  was  Professor  of  the  Hebrew 

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Language  and  Literature  in  Northwestern  University 
1887-1902;  and  Pastor  of  the  Kenilworth  Union  Church 
1903-1917.  He  succeeds  Dr.  W.  H.  Wood  who  resigned 
during  the  last  summer  to  go  to  Dartmouth  College. 

Roger  Arthur  Johnson,  Professor  of  Mathematics,  and 
Registrar,  1697  W.  Minnehaha  street. 

Professor  Johnson,  who  succeeds  Dr.  G-.  W.  Hartwell, 
deceased,  is  a  graduate  of  Amherst  College,  1910;  and 
received  the  Ph.  D.  degree  at  Harvard  in  1913,  since  which 
time  he  has  been  Instructor  in  Mathematics  in  Western 
Reserve  University. 

Harold  Scott  Quigley,  Professor  of  Political  Science, 
1443  Capitol  avenue. 

The  departments  of  Political  and  Social  Science  are 
this  year  separated,  and  Professor  Quigley  heads  the  former. 
He  is  a  graduate  of  Hamline  University,  1911.  Having 
won  the  Rhodes  Scholarship  in  Minnesota  he  spent  the 
next  three  years  at  Oxford  University,  where  in  1913  he 
was  granted  a  Diploma  in  Political  Science  and  Economics 
and  in  1914  the  B.  A.  degree  in  Modern  History.  Return- 
ing he  spent  two  years  at  the  University  of  Wisconsin  on 
a  fellowship,  and  there  received  the  Ph.  D.  degree  in  1916. 
Last  year  he  was  Instructor  in  Political  Science  in  Prince- 
ton University.  He  has  published  besides  his  thesis  several 
articles  in  the  American  Journal  of  International  Law  and 
the  Mid-west  Quarterly. 

Louise  Young,  Dean  of  Women,  Goheen  Hall,  Hamline 

University. 

Miss  Young,  who  succeeds  Miss  Lucile  Rader,  resigned, 
was  graduated  from  Vanderbilt  University,  B.  A.,  Phi 
Beta  Kappa.  She  received  the  degree  M.  A.  from  the 
University  of  Wisconsin,  where  she  was  also  Fellow  in 
Philosophy.  Last  year  she  was  Fellow  in  Philosophy  at 
Bryn  Mawr  College. 

Leslie   Cornelius    Cox,   Assistant   Professor   of  Latin, 

1701  Capitol  avenue. 

Dr.  Cox  is  a  B.  A.  of  the  University  of  Toronto  and  a 
Ph.  D.  of  the  Johns  Hopkins  University.  He  is  in  full 
charge  of  the  department  of  Latin  during  the  year's  leave 
of  absence  of  Professor  W.  E.  Thompson. 

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*William  L.  Dealey,  Assistant  Professor  of  Philosophy 
and  Psychology,  1489  W.  Minnehaha  street. 

During  the  year's  leave  of  absence  granted  to  Dr.  G. 
D.  Walcott  for  work  in  Tsing  Hua  College,  Peking,  China, 
the  department  of  Philosophy  is  in  charge  of  Dr.  Dealey, 
who  is  a  graduate  of  Brown  University,  A.  B.,  A.  M., 
Phi  Beta  Kappa;  and  a  Ph.  D.  of  Clark  University.  He 
has  published  a  number  of  articles  in  the  Pedagogical 
Seminary. 

*William   Lewis   Abbott,   Assistant  Professor  in  Eco- 
nomics and  Social  Science,  1516  W.  Minnehaha  street. 

Mr.  Abbott  is  a  graduate  of  the  University  of  Penn- 
sylvania, A.  B.,  A.  M.,  LL.  B.,  1911-1913.  He  has  since 
been  a  Reader  in  Economics  and  Assistant  in  Sociology  in 
the  same  institution. 

Edward  Newton  Voorhees,  Instructor  in  English  and 
English  Literature,  1595  Wesley  avenue. 

Mr.  Voorhees  was  graduated  from  Hamline  Univer- 
sity B.  A.  in  1914.  The  next  year  he  was  a  graduate 
student  in  the  University  of  Minnesota,  and  1915-1917  he 
studied  in  Boston  University  and  the  B.  U.  School  of 
Theology.  He  received  the  degree  A.  M.  in  English  in 
1917.  He  has  published  several  literary  studies  in  the 
Methodist  Review,  and  has  recently  been  elected  editor  of 
the  H.  U.  Alumni  Quarterly. 

Will.  F.  Wolf,  Instructor  in  Chemistry. 

Since  graduating  from  Hamline  University  in  1909, 

Ph.  B.,  Mr.  Wolf  has  been  engaged  in  teaching  and  adminis- 
trative educational  work,  his  last  position  having  been  Su- 
perintendent of  Schools  at  Lebam,  Washington. 

Ethel     Ackerman,     Instructor     in    Mathematics     and 
Assistant  to  the  Dean  of  Women,  Goheen  Hall  Annex. 

Miss  Ackerman  was  graduated  from  Hamline  Univer- 
sity A.  B.  in  1909.  She  has  since  been  a  teacher  of  Mathe- 
matics and  Principal  of  the  High  School  in  Pipestone, 
Minn. 


♦Acting  head  of  the  department,  1917-1918. 
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THE  GOOD  WORD 

Hamline  opens  six  months  after  America's  entry  into 
the  war  with  an  enrollment  of  410  students.  This  despite 
the  loan  to  Uncle  Sam  of  last  year's  members.  Both  these 
numbers  carry  cause  for  gratification  to  the  friends  of  our 
college.  As  usual,  a  nearly  equal  balance  is  maintained 
between  the  sexes,  a  fortunate  condition  which  the  other 
coeducational  colleges  of  the  state  rarely  enjoy.  The  fac- 
ulty and  departments  are  increased,  the  classes  in  elemen- 
tary subjects  substantially  reduced  in  size  by  increasing  the 
number;  and  from  numerous  indications  it  seems  likely 
that  the  work  of  this  year  will  be  of  even  more  serious  and 
thorough-going  character  than  usual.    This  is  fitting. 

As  in  the  past  Hamline  stands  ready  to  give  her  best 
BLOOD  to  a  cause.  At  the  same  time  it  must  be  her  prime 
duty  to  supply  her  quota  of  trained  BRAINS  to  the  im- 
mensely difficult  problems  of  reconstruction  and  peace  which 
may  not  be  far  distant. 

Meanwhile  the  Hamline  men  are  making  marvelously 
good  in  every  branch  of  active  war  service.  Every  one  of 
the  men  who  trained  in  the  first  camp  at  Fort  Snelling 
has  received  a  commission  and  been  given  a  responsible 
post.  Official  reports  from  Allentown  show  that  the  Ham- 
line Ambulance  Unit  ranks  individually  and  collectively 
second  to  none;  straws  indicate  they  will  soon  see  and  test 
the  mud  of  northern  France.  Elsewhere,  in  the  army,  navy, 
marine,  motor,  aero,  and  wireless,  the  boys  are  doing  their 
bits;  while  here  within  our  good  gray  walls  410  others  do 
theirs.  .  Editor 


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